| SACHERTORTE | Chocolate gateau with apricot jam |
| DEVILS | Rich chocolate gateau, ... food cake (5'1) |
| GREEDIER | Wanting more, slice of gateau with extra piping (8) |
| PARTAKE | Eat section on gateau with no topping |
| MARBLECAKE | Gateau with a mottled appearance (6,4) |
| TEA | A slice of gateau with a cuppa (3) |
| BLACKFOREST | ... and a German region giving its name to a chocolate gateau (5,6) |
| DAYDREAM | Tulip with apricot-orange flowers - 'Fantasy'? (8) |
| AMARETTO | This Italian liqueur can be made with apricot stones |
| ICING | Christmas cake topping traditionally applied over a layer of marzipan and apricot jam (5) |
| GLAZE | A glossy layer of apricot jam, eggwash, ganache or syrup applied to cakes, pastry etc; an impervious vitreous decorative coating on porcelain, pottery and other ceramics; or, a transparent topcoat in |
| MARZIPAN | Sugary paste of ground almonds that is rolled thin to coat an apricot jam-covered Christmas cake; or, a bite-sized bonne bouche, delicacy, fancy or fruit-shaped fondant made of said amygdalate confect |
| NOYAU | From "nut", a liqueur of brandy flavoured with apricot/peach kernels, or sometimes, beech leaves (5) |
| PLUMS | They're often cross-bred with apricots |
| EDAM | It's often paired with apricots |
| CAPRICORN | Goat cheese initially paired with apricot not finished by nurse (9) |
| TAPIOCA | Cassava provides it with apricot, a version that's not right (7) |
| ROUSE | Excite woman with last of gateau (5) |
| SEEDCAKE | Sacked, cooking with additives in gateau (4,4) |
| BEEFCAKE | Gateau served with red meat in hunks |
